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Volume 10 Weiss outfit headcanon.

I really want to see she got some short hair cut.

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Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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first rule of holes: keep digging

poem of the end, marina tsvetaeva / have you been long enough at the table, leslie sainz / @inneskeeper / the charismatic church asks me how i have sinned, janelle tan / blud, rachel mckibbens / leslie feinberg / @aforlorngazeintoyesterday / nonbeliever, lucy dacus / the cow, ariana reines / the wee free men, terry pratchett

[Image Description: Ten images of text on white backgrounds.

1: “Either love is / -A shrine? / or else a scar.” Or else a scar is highlighted in a pale yellow colour.

2: “can you stomach it? / Anyway, you eat it. You eat it anyway.”

3: “ Oh sunk cost fallacy, we’re really in it now. We are in fact so really in it that if we quit now then everything we did would have all been for nothing and so we have to keep going in”

4: “let me fail myself. let me call / love an unanswered prayer. let me be / the very tip of the knife / that touches grace.”

5: “Obedience in the wrong house is a kind of plague,

survivor’s guilt a slight of hand. No outrunning / your blood’s calamity, so you gather your teeth

& dig your trenches, tell your stories but never come clean.”

6: “Did I survive? I guess I did. But only because I knew I might get home to you.” The whole line is written in italics.

7: “doomed by the narrative but not to death. doomed to survive. doomed to stay alive inside the story. doomed to never escape the narrative, not even through death. you are allowed no exit. there is no way out for you and never was. you couldn’t die if you wanted to. the narrative has a hold on you and it won’t let go. death is too sweet a doom for you. the story has something much worse in mind. there is no way out.”

8: “You deal an unspoken debt / No kindness without wanting something back / What do I owe you? What did I forget? / Are we even after all of that?”

9: “There is no sacrifice. You have got to want to live. You have got to force yourself to want to.”

10: “All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!

I have a duty!” End ID.]

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Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Eat”

[Text ID: “I am trying to stop doing / things that don’t make any sense. Body, / forgive me. I am trying. I am trying. I am still trying.]

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:P

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that guy from rwby that made me cringe the second he started talking

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You're too good for us.

Flatterer. I'm too good for a lot of people

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Oh wait actually it’s this guy again. I remember you, op. Something about Adam vs Sienna or Ilia, right? You’re still here?

RWBY "Critics" and Tropes

Most of the "criticism" of RWBY ultimately amounts to tropes and expectations, not the quality of the show itself.

Now are there legitimate issues with RWBY's story? Absolutely. Pacing, cast bloat, lack of planning, dialogue...

But that's not what people talk about. They talk about the tropes they wanted to see and are mad weren't used.

Why is Adam a bad character? Because "misunderstood and misguided anti-hero who fights for a good cause and gets redeemed" is a popular trope people thought was going to be used and they got mad when it wasn't.

Why do people still argue Ironwood was right? Because "strong man making morally grey choices for the greater good" is a popular trope and people got mad that it wasn't how Ironwood was treated. Never mind that his actions only ever made things worse and that narratively, he exists to show why that kind of thinking fails, it's a trope they expected to see and got mad that it wasn't there.

Why is Ruby a "bad protagonist"? Because "wide-eyed ingenue who gets their idealism broken and has to 'grow up' into a more cynical version of themself to save the day" is a trope they like and expected to see. Never mind that one of RWBY's core themes from the beginning has been rejecting cynicism and embracing heroism, it's a trope they like and got mad that it wasn't used.

Everything the "critics" say about RWBY basically boil down to them not liking the actual theme of the show and getting mad that it wasn't an entirely different show with a completely different tone, genre, and theme that they would like better.

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RWBY "Critics" and Tropes

Most of the "criticism" of RWBY ultimately amounts to tropes and expectations, not the quality of the show itself.

Now are there legitimate issues with RWBY's story? Absolutely. Pacing, cast bloat, lack of planning, dialogue...

But that's not what people talk about. They talk about the tropes they wanted to see and are mad weren't used.

Why is Adam a bad character? Because "misunderstood and misguided anti-hero who fights for a good cause and gets redeemed" is a popular trope people thought was going to be used and they got mad when it wasn't.

Why do people still argue Ironwood was right? Because "strong man making morally grey choices for the greater good" is a popular trope and people got mad that it wasn't how Ironwood was treated. Never mind that his actions only ever made things worse and that narratively, he exists to show why that kind of thinking fails, it's a trope they expected to see and got mad that it wasn't there.

Why is Ruby a "bad protagonist"? Because "wide-eyed ingenue who gets their idealism broken and has to 'grow up' into a more cynical version of themself to save the day" is a trope they like and expected to see. Never mind that one of RWBY's core themes from the beginning has been rejecting cynicism and embracing heroism, it's a trope they like and got mad that it wasn't used.

Everything the "critics" say about RWBY basically boil down to them not liking the actual theme of the show and getting mad that it wasn't an entirely different show with a completely different tone, genre, and theme that they would like better.

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Skateboarding Adam… now that is a wonderful thought. New hobby for him /j

Adam Taurus’s Pro Hater 3&4 remaster

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I was laughing at the "Adam gets good sleep" until i remember i'm like that....

I was an angry mess in HS with undiagnose authism and anger issues who slept like shit and made it EVERYONES PROBLEM.

Until my bff mom pet me on the head and played with my hair and BOOM! 12 hours if uninterrupted sleep.

My classmates tought i was on drugs when i came back.

Adam, i feel you babe

Everyone’s always like “get more sleep” and you’re like “that’s bullshit I get enough” and then you actually get enough and your whole personality changes

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I do not want to yuck anybodies yum but the Sk8 Adam guy is just not it for me when comparing him to Adam RWBY… yes.

Apples to oranges but the oranges just happen to also be called apples

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IMO:

I’ve been watching Sk8 The Infinity and I’m so glad our Adam isn’t into highschool children 😁 bare minimum. I wish he’d stop being compared to that freakweirdo over there 💔💔💔

Sk8 Adam though has some pretty crazy design stuff and his style is cool but he’s like way too weird to the mains 💔 everything else would’ve been awesome if it weren’t for the flirting with the main character Langa…

I can tell why people compare them now but oh come on. Adam Taurus isn’t even that much of a creep.

Adam Taurus… is… peak? 🤯

Sk8 is such a good anime, it's so much fun. The aesthetic similarities between that Adam and rwby Adam caught me by surprise but it was entertaining to contrast the two lol. Sk8 Adam is so...much. And the preying on Langa was 100% weird, but at least the show was pretty damn clear about it.

Comparing the two is fun, but yeah, the two Adams are very different characters with very different purposes. For one, Sk8 seems invested in making its Adam a (slightly) better person.

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hehe keyboard customization go brrrr

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adam fic idea (different anon here): he gets the best sleep of his life and realizes the error of his ways in the morning, sends blake a genuine apology but doesn't try to get back with her because he understands how heinous that would be, and then re-reforms the white fang into basically what it was under ghira and works on making menagerie a truly better civilization regardless of everything going on in the rest of the world

The amount of sleep he'd need for that steep of character growth would be considered a coma by most medical professionals

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Today i saw a notification from you on my Lunch hour and ended up info dumping about Adam to my coworker. I tought he would bever speak to me again but he just hugged me and said "Im sorry your angsty anime boy was baile written. You and your friends are very creative"

I think i made a friend. Thank you

let it be known, Adam Taurus fosters friendships

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I had this dream where during Beacon era Blake went to visit someone's apartment in vale and found Adam just chilling in a zip up hoodie and his jammies and the person Blake was visiting was like "oh yeah that's my roommate dw about him"

and Blake is like what the fuck dude and Adam just tells her he "dropped out" of the white fang cause the stress was too much. it just wasn't for him.

and Blake accuses him of abandoning the cause and Adam is like "Blake I'm barely in my 20s and we were stationed in vale, one of the least strategically critical regions for the white fang. the cause isn't going to implode becauei take some me time."

Blake then had a fucking mental breakdown because this she doesn't know how to deal with an Adam that's just a chill dude

anyways this dream has been rocurring and fucking haunting me

wait that's actually fucking hilarious

Vale branch leader Adam crashes out but his crashout is just...him crashing on someone's couch. Hanging out. Going to the club. Living the life of an early-twenty-something.

Good for him.